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Lack of exercise increases cancer risk in women

Women from the UK are putting themselves at risk of developing cancer because of their lack of physical activity, a charity has warned.

Women from the UK are putting themselves at risk of developing cancer because of their lack of physical activity, a charity has warned. The World Cancer Research Fund alert comes after figures suggested that women in the UK have the 10th highest rate in the world for cancers linked to being sedentary, according to a report by Nursingtimes.net. Experts have estimated that 12% of bowel and breast cancers and one in 10 womb cancer cases in the UK could be prevented if women did more exercise. In 2012, almost 80,000 British women were diagnosed with these cancers, at a rate

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